Ability Quote by Richard Wilbur

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived…

— Andrew Motion

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez

I don't write poems with a purpose in mind, but I'd hope that some readers would find their experiences mirrored or articulated here -…

— Deborah Landau

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life,…

— Isaac Rosenberg

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is…

— Keith Carter